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Chapter List
- 1-The Taming of the Jedi
- 2-Part 2
- 3-Part 3
- 4-Part 4
- 5-Part 5
- 6-Part 6
- 7-Part 7
- 8-Part 8
- 9-Part 9
- 10-Part 10
- 11-Part 11
- 12-Part 12
- 13-Part 13
- 14-Part 14
- 15-Part 15
- 16-Part 16
- 13
- 14
- 15
Part 14

Alone in a private hangar of the late Emperor�s Death Star,
Lady Jade watched a solitary X-wing lift and hover, only briefly, before
shooting out into the blackness and stars beyond.� As the hangar doors moved together, closing
silently in the vacuum, she stared straight ahead.�

And so it begins,
she mused.�

Spokes that had been carefully planned and placed by Vader
and those who remained loyal to him would finally be actualized as the wheels
of change were put into motion.� Closing
her eyes, Mara stretched out into the void and touched tendrils of the Force,
then allowed them to ebb and swirl around her in a peaceful wash of power and
guidance.� Like Vader, she had never been
one to linger on meditation and this was a technique she�d learned by observing
Luke.

Luke.

She focused on his presence, now fleeting into the
void.� Even though the distance between
them increased, he glowed with the brilliance of a sun.�

�My Lady?�� A voice from behind broke the silence.� �You called for me?�

Mara glanced over her shoulder.� �Yes, Elene.� Join me.�

The slender, raven-haired woman moved forward noiselessly to
stand beside Mara in the control booth.� While
comparable to Mara in age and build, she stood half a head taller and glanced
down with striking white-blue eyes.� �It
is done?� she asked.

Mara took in a deep breath, exhaling it slowly.� �It is.�

Indicator lights on the control console flashed from red to
green, signaling re-pressurization of the bay, but the hangar did not fill with
the expected bustling of droids and human crewmen.� Instead, the deck remained quiet and it was
with effort that Mara slowly pulled her gaze from the emptiness below.

�The Emperor�s advisors and private staff will be a threat,�
she began, turning from the viewport.� �I
have sent out an urgent communiqu� summoning his advisors to assemble here
immediately.� Their names, access codes,
and arrival times are all on this.�� She
pulled a data card from her pocket and handed it to the other woman.

�Kill them and all who travel with them upon arrival,� Mara
instructed calmly.� �Do it quickly and
quietly.� The bodies are not to be
found.�

Elene palmed the card and it
disappeared into some hidden pocket with only a flick of her wrist.� One of the Emperor�s elite Hands, Elene was quite possibly the deadliest of the Emperor�s
private assassins and, had she possessed any Force sensitivity, might have been
tapped as Palpatine�s new Sith apprentice after Vader�s demise.

Though she maintained her title with lip service to the
Emperor, she had long ago pledged her loyalty to Lady Jade and inclined her
head gracefully to her now.� �It is done,
my Lady.�

�I will dispose of his private staff myself,� Mara
continued, �and afterwards, I shall assemble my council and announce the
Emperor�s death publicly.�

Elene nodded in
understanding.� �And
Skywalker?� He is gone?�

�He is returning to the Alliance, yes,� Mara answered.

Shifting to a more casual stance, Elene
graced her with a partial smile.� �And is
that why you�re standing here staring into space?�

Mara looked up at her sharply.� �Of course not-�

�Oh, come now, Mara.�
How long have we known each other?��
Elene did smile now, a knowing look that
negated all thought of pretense.��

Mara regarded her carefully.�
She could not remember a time when Elene had
not been her closest friend and confidant.�
Together, they had suffered the brutalities of the Emperor in their
youth.� Their innocence had been taken
much too soon by Palpatine�s perverse minions and
they had lain in the dark afterwards, crying softly in each other�s arms.�

Years later, when they�d learned how to harness and wield
their sexuality for power, they had made a pact that, one day,
they would be their own masters. That day had finally come and Mara avoided the
white-blue gaze she was certain would be filled with reproach.

Instead, Elene stepped close,
tenderly resting her slender hand on Mara�s.�
�Your plan worked,� she stated simply.�
�But did you plan to fall for the Jedi?�

Pulling her hand away and turning quickly to leave, Mara declared
solemnly, �No.� I did not.�

* * * * *

Seated at the small comm station
in her room, Leia Organa
waited for the requested data to populate her vidscreen,
only to ignore the report when it finally appeared.� Instead, she turned toward the window,
distracted by an increasing sensation that undulated just below the surface of
her consciousness.�

Rising from her chair, she walked onto the balcony of her
room and gazed out over the moonlit grassy plains of Ansion.
�The Alliance had established their newest base
here in the Kander Region shortly after the failed
attack on the Death Star.� It had proven
to be a good location � quiet and remote, yet not too far from the capital city
and spaceport.

This niggling sensation had started two days ago and grown
incrementally stronger in the last few hours.�
The feeling was familiar, yet she could not place it.� Like a word or thought just on the tip of her
tongue, it eluded her, but she had felt it before.� She knew
she had felt it before.

A voice squawked from the comm:� �Princess Leia.�

She returned to the console.�
�Yes.�

�Ma�am, an X-wing fighter is approaching and requesting
permission to land, but the pilot refuses to identify
himself and insists that he will speak only with you.�

�Can you not identify the ship by its transponder code?�

�Yes, ma�am, but the code corresponds with a ship reported
missing in action over a year ago.� We�ve
� wait.��

There was a pause as the information officer spoke with the
X-wing pilot in the background.

�Ma�am, the pilot says that you will recognize him by the
code name �brother�.�

The vague sensation she�d been feeling exploded in a flash
of recognition and she gasped aloud.� �Allow
him to land,� she commanded breathlessly.�
�I�m on my way.�

She recognized it now � the awareness she had felt once
before, during the desperate flight from Bespin when
she had known with inexplicable certainty that Luke was alive and hanging from
the bottom of the city.

Rushing through winding corridors to the hangar bay, she
relived the last time she�d seen him, as she had done every day since his
disappearance.� In the darkness on the
Sanctuary Moon, he had revealed the long-hidden truths:� that he was her brother, that Darth Vader had
been their father, and that the Force had given him a dream that he must
confront the Emperor on the Death Star if the war was to end without the
destruction of the Alliance.

Leia had argued with him, pleading
for him to stay and help them in the strike against the Death Star.� But he had solidly refused, professing the importance
and validity of his dream.� And that was
the last anyone had heard from him, over three months ago.

The lone X-wing had just landed when she arrived at the
hangar and she waited anxiously for the canopy to open.� When it did, the pilot who emerged was not
dressed in the standard orange flight suit, but rather in a black Imperial
suit.�� He jumped down from the cockpit,
removed his helmet, and the dark blond hair beneath was unmistakable.

�Luke!��

She ran toward him and he met her halfway, enveloping her in
a crushing embrace.� �Leia!�� His
quivering voice mirrored the trembling of her legs as they held and supported
each other.� �Oh, Leia.�

�I knew it,� she sobbed, clutching him fiercely.� �They tried to tell me you�d been killed, but
I wouldn�t believe it.�� I would have
known.� Somehow, I would have known��

Taking his face in her hands, she looked him over, searching
for any signs of injury.� �Are you all
right?� Are you hurt?�

Luke separated gently and held her at arm�s length.� �No, I�m fine,� he smiled, wiping the tears
from her cheeks.� �And I�m sorry.� I�m so sorry that I couldn�t-�

He stopped, seeming to be at a loss for words.

She stood there, drinking in the sight of him as hundreds of
questions and emotions revolved through her head.� Gently, she reached out to touch his face,
marveling that it was real and did not fade away as it had in her dreams. ��Luke,� she started, not sure where to begin.
��What�where..?�

He returned her touch in kind.� �Can we go somewhere else?�

She nodded, leading him quickly back to her room through the
corridors she had just traversed.� When
they arrived, he excused himself to the refresher and emerged without the
flight suit, though he was still in an Imperial-cut black uniform.

�Are you hungry?� she asked, rifling distractedly through
the food cupboard.� �Thirsty?�

�No,� Luke answered, settling on a lounger in the small
conversation area.�

Leia joined him and reached across
for his hand as if to assure herself that he was really there.� �Can you tell me what happened?�

He looked down, studying her fingers.� �I was taken captive,� he started
hesitantly.� �By Lady
Jade.�

�The Emperor�s apprentice?�

�Yes.�� Luke
nodded.�

Leia waited, prompting him when he
remained silent.� �And she took you to
the Emperor, like you expected?�

Luke laughed, a self-depreciating
sound.� �No, she did nothing that I
expected.�� He pulled away, shifting in
his seat before continuing in what sounded like a rehearsed tone.� �She held me on her ship for most of the time
that I was gone and, eventually, we reached an agreement for the conditions of
my release.� That�s really all I can say
right now,� he finished apologetically.�

�I see,� Leia replied, though she
did not see at all.� Call if newfound
sisterly intuition, but he was hiding something.

�Things have changed within the Empire,� he said, his eyes
taking on the familiar gleam of eagerness that was both endearing and frustrating.� �Mara will hold a press conference in a few
days and -�

�Mara?�
�Leia
interrupted him.�

�Lady Jade, I mean.�

�You call Lady Jade by her first name?��

�With her permission, of course.�� Luke answered quickly.�

Leia felt a vague uneasiness
growing in her gut.� It wasn�t so much
the fact that he used Lady Jade�s first name, but the way he said it � with an
air of familiarity that lent itself to more than a professional
relationship.�

�I can�t explain yet,� Luke continued with obvious
restraint, �but you will understand when the announcement is made.�

Leia studied him, pressing her
fingertips together. �At first glance, he
appeared healthy, but on closer inspection she noted that he was thinner and
paler than she remembered.� His hair was
almost as long as it had been when she�d first met him fresh from the farm and
he had tell-tale dark circles under his eyes.

Leaning forward, she took his hands again and measured her
words very carefully.� �Luke�perhaps you should
go to the medical ward.� You look
exhausted and I�m sure that whatever happened must have been stressful-�

�I�m fine, Leia.� Really,� he assured her.� His smile was as bright as ever, but he did
concede to being tired after several days in his X-wing.�

�I kept a room ready for you,� she said, rising from her
seat.� �It�s just down the hall.�� He stood and she embraced him once again, exhaling
the breath she�d been holding for three months.�
�Welcome home.�

* * * * *

Luke followed her down the lengthy corridor to a small
apartment chamber.� It was similar to Leia�s and housed a food prep area, lounger, refresher, comm console, and bedroom.�

�I�m sorry it�s not much,� she said, switching on the
lights.� �But the cupboard is stocked and
there are clean clothes in the closet.�

�It�s fine,� Luke answered, kicking
off his boots.� �Better than those ice
chambers on Hoth, at least.��

She smiled up at him.�
�Get some rest,� she said quietly.�
�Tomorrow will be a busy day.�

Luke kissed her on the cheek as she left and turned to face
the stark, quiet room.� It was nicer than
his usual billeting, but would take some adjustment after the opulence of
Mara�s quarters.

After he had showered and donned a pair of loose pants, he
sat down at the comm console and keyed in a private
access code to the Avarice.

A miniature version of the communications officer appeared
on the holotransmitter and nodded curtly.� �One moment, my lord.� I�ll redirect you.�

Mara�s form shimmered into view shortly afterward, seated in
what appeared to be a control room.� �You
made it,� she said, turning to face him.

�Finally,� he answered.�
�It took me a couple of days to locate the homing beacon.� Are you well?�
Is everything going all right?�

�Yes and yes,� she responded matter-of-factly.� �The opposition has been eliminated and my council
members are almost in position.� It
shouldn�t be much longer.�

�Good.�� Luke was
comforted by her voice, though his body�s now-habitual reaction to her presence
was suddenly very uncomfortable.� �We
should keep this brief, until I�ve set up a more secure channel.�

�I agree.�� She
nodded, leaning forward to bring her face closer into focus.� �And I miss you.�

�I miss you, too,� he murmured, and the connection went
dead.

Luke turned from the console and flicked off the lights as
he made his way into the bedroom.� Crawling
beneath the cold, sterile sheets, he grimaced at the restrictive feel of sleep
clothes against his sensitized flesh and slipped gratefully into slumber that
washed away the ache of desire.

(to
be continued�)

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